I'm more likely to quote the golfer George Burns than the legendary late comedian by the same name who lived to be 100.
George Burns was the father I never had.
George Burns, what a man. He read in the paper that it takes ten dollars a year to support a kid in India. So he sent his kids there.
So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game.
George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.
When you talk about George Burns you're talking about a living legend . . . well, a legend, anyhow.
George Burns was more athletic than you think he was. And he was a very social man. He loved people, he enjoyed life. He worked at living. Old George was a social lion, he got around and did things. That's the key right there. It starts with your brain.
Not too many people are - were as good as Bob Hope. George Burns was great at thinking, you know, on the spot. Steve Allen was marvelous, and so was George Burns. But Bob may be the king of them all, you know.
George Burns – the only man I know who does fool Mother Nature.
I know George Burns was a very happy man.
